BioTex was formally founded and incorporated in early 1997 with the goal of bringing innovative optical technologies to the market place. This goal was originally pursued through the small business innovation research (SBIR) program, and BioTex received its first NIH SBIR award in late 1997. Since that time, BioTex has continued to develop a number of technologies through research grants from NIH, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF),